Running OS 9 in Snow Leopard

Exactly what kind of help are you seeking? For emulating OS 9 on your machine, you should be asking at the SheepShaver website. Do note that it only supports OS 9.0.4.

Best to keep an old Mac around for running OS 9 natively. I just acquired a Power Mac G4 Dual 1 GHz (Quicksilver 2002) from a friend of mine. Runs OS 9 through Leopard. The perfect Mac for legacy software and current stuff too. Great companion to an Intel Mac. The Mirror Drive Door G4 Mac from late 2002 was the last Mac to boot OS 9 natively.

I concur. That's why I still have the G4.

Hi

You could consider TCP/IP over Firewire? I've not tried 10.6 with 8.6 but I do occasionally have need to share files from 10.5 to 9.2.2. Works fine using straightforward TCP/IP. Not sure how dropped support for AppleTalk will affect this? If I have time I may try it? Failing that USB Pencil Sticks or external drives (USB and/or Firewire). There can't be that much you would want to share with the older box? A NAS Box of some description should also work. Depends on the File Sharing Protocols available in the NAS Box.

Like you and the others I keep an older mac around for the same reason.

Tony

Unless your box can run both Classic (or OS 9 directly, like my G4) and OS X, where drag & drop work, the simplest is to simply e-mail stuff from one machine to the other.

Hi John

Absolutely. For me there are good reasons for keeping an older box around to run older apps. I get more done sometimes. I also have a soft spot for some of the older games.

Tony

John Wolf wrote:
I may keep the iBook around for that. Or I may sell it and buy a native OS 8.x mac on ebay that can run apps Classic cannot. But how i the world can I network a SL Mac and a OS 8.6 Mac?


John

You can turn on the FTP sharing option on the SL Mac and run Fetch on the Classic Mac to transfer files over your network. Best to compress the files on your SL Mac before transferring over Fetch to the Classic Mac. Then uncompress on the Classic Mac. I do that with my vintage LC 575 via Ethernet. It is the only thing you can do since File Sharing over AppleTalk was discontinued in 2005 with OS X Tiger.

If the Classic Mac is running 8.6 or later that supports File Sharing over TCP/IP, you can connect to it from the SL Mac by using the Connect to Server option under the Go menu and entering the Classic Mac's IP address. However, I get error -50 errors often when trying to copy files.

The only reason I installed Windows XP under Boot Camp was to play the old classic Mac games that are hybrid discs...like Riven, Myst IV, Myst V, etc. However, there are some games that are Mac only discs and now having the Quicksilver 2002 G4, it works great for classic apps. I have old FileMaker Pro database files that don't run under Intel or Mac OS X and I never bothered to upgrade FileMaker. Some of the old legacy apps run much faster than their bloated Intel counterparts too. Plus, I have a variety of old Mac CD-ROM titles that only run in the Classic OS. Claris Home Page does a great job creating a quick and dirty basic web page too.

Claris Home Page is very antiquated, and has no support for current web standards. If you want to support standards, use Textwrangler, as it is free and learn HTML. Without supporting standards, you are going to get websites that do not appear the same in each web browser.

See http://www.w3.org/ and http://www.anybrowser.org for resources for a uniform website development.

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Textwrangler allows you to FTP directly to the server your editing anytime you like with a simple control-command-S.

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